Albert Smith's Mystery Thrillers

Dirk De Graaf has kept his deadly secret for twenty-three years. Not one person on the planet knows. Until today. A chance encounter in the street threatens to expose everything and topple an empire he built with little more than ruthless cunning. But it's just one man. One old man. And one old man can be dealt with easily enough. Or so Dirk De Graaf thinks. He should have picked a different old man because some old habits are hard to break and getting into trouble is Albert's speciality.

Sometimes the oldest secrets are the hardest ones to keep. When retired police detective, Albert Smith, and his dog wander into a small town in the French mountains, no one expects the trouble they will uncover. A body has been unearthed at a nearby archaeological dig and it's clear no one was ever supposed to find it. The locals deny all knowledge; they have no idea who it could be, but there is something disturbing about how they all give the exact same answer. And what of the archaeologists? What were they really looking for? It wasn't the Stone Age settlement they claim to be after. Does everyone in this town have a secret they don't want exposed? Together with his trusted sidekick, Albert and Rex are going to get to the bottom of the mystery. He could walk away, there's nothing to make him investigate. But Albert has an old school way of thinking and when things don't add up he just cannot help but poke his nose in.

It was all going so well until an old man with old fashioned ideas stuck his nose in … Amsterdam has its share of seedy criminals, just like everywhere else. Sylvia van Lidth sits atop a criminal empire providing a service to a very specific clientele … a very wealthy clientele with a particular taste. She fought to achieve her lofty status and is not about to let anything stop her. Lee Yoo the local boss of Korea's most ruthless crime family, has an order of high-end cars to steal. He doesn't want to consider the consequences of failure. Arriving in the heart of Amsterdam, Albert's only aim is to sample the local cuisine, but when his detective's nose results in being mistaken for a thief, his faithful companion and sidekick, Rex, is taken from him.